Good end to August for JP, very good end of August for Toby Lewis

August was yet another successful month and I made $5450 in 92 hours (40,000 hands). Despite my shot on Micro Gaming it was still a successful month again. Here's my latest graph from the start of the year until the end of August. The positives to take are that I have still never had a losing month since playing poker full time. I need to keep on going and improving my game until I am able to move on up through the levels. August was my highest volume month which is great and I now want to make that a bench mark for future months with a 40k hand target. I will never force myself to play when I'm on a bad run of cards or playing bad but I will try to maximise volume when I'm running and playing well. 40k hands is still a very modest target considering this is full time.



It's been a massive month for young Toby Lewis. He seems to have won the entire world! A few of us flew out to watch him in the final table of the 5k euro EPT Vilamoura in Portugal and he didn't disappoint. He took the tourney down for over 400k euros! We had a great day there getting boozy on the rail. We were drinking with a few well known UK tournament pros and the legendary Daniel Negreanu, what a hero! Details of the tournament can be found at this website: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2010/ept-vilamoura-toby-lewis-new-prince-of-portugal-073075.html

Toby has already been on Late Night Poker and he has a few more televised tournaments coming up in the next few weeks. His friend Jake Cody who has already won an EPT also won the WPT London recently for nearly £300k. It looks like the pair of them are gonna take over the world! Here's a photo of us outside the Casino with Toby and Daniel Negreanu.



So on into September with the grind. I started the month well and then had a bad day today and hit stop loss but luckily I then quit and didn't do my brains :-) I'm even so far for September but haven't really played. After a word from my mentor Bobs I am gonna chill a few days and then try and get back on track and get some more volume in at $1/$2 and get that roll building again and some dollar in the bank! I need to get back to some normality because I haven't been going to the gym lately and my eating has been a mess. Gonna sort myself out and get back to the gym every day mon - fri and I'm playing loads of footy now including playing for an 11 a side team on Saturdays which is awesome. We won our first game 2-0 and of course I bagged a goal ;-)

Any questions feel free to comment or email me at jonprince44@hotmail.com.

JP